Google Gets its Own “Fail Whale”

• May 20th, 2009 by Ann Smarty

The social-networking world and its monetized back-end social-media circles got their chance to prove themselves recently in their first collective trial-by-fire when Google’s entire fleet of services went down for several hours last Thursday. The search giant offered no explanation at first, causing wild rumors to spread throughout the various networks, and productivity slowed to a crawl for many users.… Read more

Twitter Meme Tracker in a Tag Cloud

• January 9th, 2009 by Ann Smarty

RetweetRadar is a new tool that represents most “retweeted” terms in the form of a tag cloud.… Read more